Horseshoe



(No Moda.)

I'. F. LUTZ.

HQRSESHOE.

No. 319,103. Patented June 2, 1885.

amfw. a 4M/2% .dttorney Unirse dramas Partnr @tirreno FERDINAND F. LUTZ, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

HORSESHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 319,103, dated June 2, 1885.

Application filed January i2, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that l, FERDINAND F. Lnrz, a citizen of the United States, residing at Louisville, in the county of Jederson and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horseshoes; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the saine, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form apart of this speciiication.

This invention has relation to improvements in horseshoes; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of devices, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth, and particularly pointed out in the claim appended.

The object of this invention is to improve horseshoes on which removable calks are employed by simplifying the construction and adapting the part-s, so as to allow others than horseshoers to remove and replace the calks upon a shoe, and to obviate the necessity of removing` the shoe from the foot of an animal.

Heretofore horseshoes have been provided at both the toe and heel portions with verti cal threaded apertures to receive the threaded stem oi a calli, and in some cases the under face of the shoe has been recessed for the reception of a plate abutting against one side of the calk, the plate being transversely perforated and held to the shoe and against the said calk by means of a screw.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, Figure lis a sectional view of a shoe showing my improvements applied. Fig. 2 is a View of the call; removed from the shoe. Fig. 3 is a detached view of the securing-plate, and Fig. 4 is a plan view of a shoe with the calks and securing-plates removed.

Referring to the said drawings by letter, a indicates a shoe, which may be of any ordinary or approved construction. This shoe I provide at the toe and heel portions, respectively, with vertical internally-threaded apertures and c, the former being designed to receive the externally-threaded stem of the the shoulder or base e of the point portion of the call; will firmly engage the under side of the securing-plate,with the rectangular shouldered portion of the calli iitting snugly in a correspondingly-shaped aperture in the securing-plate, and the outer flat side, f, ofthe shouldered portion resting against the shoe.

D indicates the aperture in the securingplate E for the screw H, which will be brought directly over the aperture c when the stem of the calli has been passed through the rectangular aperture inthe said plate and screwed home into the shoe by simply turning the securing-plate E, which serves the additional function of a lever or means for screwing the calks into the shoe.

It will be perceived that the securing-plate surrounds the shouldered portion of the call;- stem by all the walls of the rectangular apertn-re I, and thereby effectually prevents the call; from turning in the shoe when the screw H in the perforation D is screwed into the threaded aperture of the shoe.

The only thing necessary to adapt a shoe for the reception of my improvements is to provide it with the threaded apertures at the toe and heel portions, as before described. The call; may then be quickly applied and removed from a shoe by any one without having a knowledge of horseshoeing.

It is sometimes desirable to use two calks or points at the toe of theshoe to form a broad and firm footing, and in such cases this is provided for by simply forming the aperture in shoeplate and the aperture for the securing-screw in the middle or other suitable portion of theI plate, and two rectangular apertures ata suitable distance therefromgthe sole function of the said screw being to hold the plate to the shoe.

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Having thus described this invention, what additional function of a lever forseriewing the l l claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters cell; into a shoe, substantially as specified. 1o Patent, is- In testimony whereof I afx my Signature in The combination, with n horseshoe having Apresence of two witnesses. 5 threaded apertures, of a ealk having a threacl- FERDINAND F. LUTZo ed stem and an singular portion at the base lVitnesses: thereof, and a securing-plate adapted to en- J OBLN G. GRAVES,

gage the said angular portion and serve the EDWARD STORKER. 

